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Religion Stats: compare key data on Greece & Russia

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STAT Greece Russia HISTORY
Christian > Mormon > Congregations 4
Ranked 104th.
99
Ranked 29th. 25 times more than Greece
Christian > Mormon > Members 751
Ranked 108th.
21,709
Ranked 33th. 29 times more than Greece
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox population 10.72 million
Ranked 5th.
58.19 million
Ranked 1st. 5 times more than Greece
Christianity > Christians 11.3 million
Ranked 10th.
27.73 million
Ranked 3rd. 2 times more than Greece
Christianity > Percent Christian 99.7%
Ranked 1st. 5 times more than Russia
19.5%
Ranked 9th.
Islam > Percentage Muslim 1.3%
Ranked 116th.
15%
Ranked 68th. 12 times more than Greece
Jehovahs Witnesses 28,055
Ranked 37th.
142,439
Ranked 9th. 5 times more than Greece
Major religion(s) Christianity Christianity, Islam
Muslim > Muslim percentage of total population 4.7%
Ranked 91st.
11.7%
Ranked 72nd. 2 times more than Greece
Muslim > Muslim population 527,000
Ranked 84th.
16.38 million
Ranked 21st. 31 times more than Greece
Religions Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7% Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2%; <i>note:</i> estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Religions > All Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7% Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion important 71.5%
Ranked 90th. 2 times more than Russia
33%
Ranked 127th.
Secularism and atheism > Population considering religion unimportant 29.5%
Ranked 49th.
60.5%
Ranked 19th. 2 times more than Greece
Seventh-day Adventist Membership 454
Ranked 168th.
58,299
Ranked 42nd. 128 times more than Greece
State religion > Church Greek Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Church
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox percent of population 94.8
Ranked 2nd. 2 times more than Russia
41
Ranked 13th.
Seventh-day Adventist Membership per 1000 0.041
Ranked 169th.
0.405
Ranked 121st. 10 times more than Greece
Jews 5,000
Ranked 45th.
550,000
Ranked 4th. 110 times more than Greece
Religious diversity score 0.153
Ranked 183th.
0.44
Ranked 114th. 3 times more than Greece
State religion > Denomination Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox
Jehovahs Witnesses per 1000 2.55
Ranked 62nd. 3 times more than Russia
0.98
Ranked 111th.
Jews per 1000 0.461
Ranked 44th.
3.74
Ranked 18th. 8 times more than Greece
Christian > Orthodox > Orthodox share of world population 3.88
Ranked 5th.
38.52
Ranked 1st. 10 times more than Greece
Christian > Protestant > Quakers 3
Ranked 31st.
13
Ranked 25th. 4 times more than Greece

SOURCES: Wikipedia: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France (Membership Statistics); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#Sovereign_states; International Religious Freedom Report 2004, U.S. State Department; watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Wikipedia: Islam by country (Table) ("Muslim Population by Country" . The Future of the Global Muslim Population . Pew Research Center . Retrieved 22 December 2011 .); CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006; Wikipedia: Importance of religion by country (Countries); adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004; Wikipedia: State religion (Established churches and former state churches); Wikipedia: Orthodoxy by country (Statistics); adventiststatistics.org 2004 Annual Report 31 December 2004. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998; Wikipedia: List of countries ranked by ethnic and cultural diversity level (Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Fractionalization) (Natalka Patsiurko, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall (2012). "Measuring cultural diversity: ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization in the OECD" . Ethnic and Racial Studies 35 (2): 195–217 . Retrieved September 13, 2012 .); watchtower.org - 2002 Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Jewish Congress (WJC), 1998. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: Quakers (Africa) (Nuttall, Geoffrey (1955). "Early Quakerism in the Netherlands: Its wider context" . The Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association 44 (1): 3–18. Gragg, Larry (2009). The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826218476 . Friends World Committee for Consultation (2007) 'Finding Quakers around the World http://www.fwccamericas.org/publications/images/fwcc_map_2007_sm.gif, )

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